Comments on: Review: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

By: raul

raul — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:10:48 +0000

I like the show, It’s not perfect by any means but its cool to have something great from the past come back and manifest itself again. You haters should just be happy to hear about the franchise again. You people probably hated tranformers because it wasn’t perfect, right?

By: SimonCowell

SimonCowell — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:08:54 +0000

I like how people comment on how bad the acting is…
Why don’t you try focusing on the story as a whole and not so much “omg he so was using the wrong tone right then”.

If it was that horrendous, don’t you think the producer/director would just reshoot? Or are you one of those people who thinks you’re better at everything?

By: andre

andre — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:55:58 +0000

back to July 24, 2004, Judgment Day. How in the world you are going to completely disregard the T3 movie? On top of that they supposibly came to 2007 after the jump, hello? Am i missing something? Whats wrong with that picture….? And also when they did the jump how did Terminators head got through with them? None biological matter can travel through the time gate.
In over all i liked the show but weak Sarah Connor and this really really enoying faulty plot with no continuity makes me not wanna watch the rest of the season.

By: wow

wow — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:45:01 +0000

the 2nd episode, wasnt too bad, the facial expression of the cyborg have really stopped being annoying, john is whiney and for somebody whos going to lead an army of humans is acting like a mommas boy, dont tell me it takes the death of his mom, to start acting like a leader, if I had cyborgs chasing me wherever I go, to kill me, especially at 16 or 18, I definately grow up faster into adulthood, but overall a good episode, itll keep me watching….next episode should be better…from the previews

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:51:36 +0000

Anyone else bothered by the fact that the terminator skull passed through the time portal in the second half of the pilot? Isn’t that a MAJOR irregularity in the story? Also, Lena’s Sarah Connor is way too soft, not edgy and tormented like Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor… and when she’s edgy, it seems overdone. I hate how she calls Kyle “Kyle Reese”. It was always either Kyle or Reese. Do you call someone you love by their full name? I hope this series improves and that this is just the teething process of a new show.

By: Bruce in Montreal

Bruce in Montreal — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:21:00 +0000

Thomas Dekker’s wooden acting will sink the show .. he isn’t credible as that character.

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By: jim schroeder

jim schroeder — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:21:40 +0000

I was excited to watch The Terminator series. After watching, oh about 5 minutes, I began looking for a sharp stick to stab in my eye. The acting is horrendous. The local 5th grade play has better acting. I cant imagine the series will last an entire season. The muckety mucks at Fox may want to consider paying the actors and series to go away and substitute the slot with Family Guy reruns.

By: wow

wow — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:07:16 +0000

I thought the storyline was great, didnt like the acting though, props on terminators were cheap, I mean the girl good terminator gave this funny look when she was fighting the assasin terminator, actually they both did, I know there supposed to look like robot expressions, but they programmed her to have more human emotions or watever….they could of done without that…

also, the terminator downloading his information from a computer desktop….I mean actually reading the screen, its a terminator…he should be already be jacked into wifi….he might be an older version. Im not a terminator expert though….

Overall the pilot kept me glued because I wanted to watch FAMILY GUY next, them

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:34:42 +0000

Dekker was better in Heroes (even with such a minor role), in my opinion. However, playing a role such as this shows that he might actually have some depth as an actor.

Anyway, I wasn’t a big fan of the pilot. I will admit that the ending was interesting. I’ll watch 101 tonight and decide after that whether or not I’ll stick to this show.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:48:30 +0000

One of the lamest 7 minutes of television I ever watched.

By: J-

J- — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:50:56 +0000

This isn’t really so much of a review as a recap. Granted this is a film blogging site and not a valid journalistic endeavor, I think it’s important to know the difference. This is something Ebert has been unable to grasp in his 20 years.

By: Skribble

Skribble — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:24:29 +0000

Utter shite!

Within the first five mins i knew it was going to be cack, bad scripting, bad acting and a bad choice of actors. Its all wrong and a mess to watch. I might take a look at the second episode but it will be done with gritted teeth. Forge this crap and go and watch the original movies!

By: Pat

Pat — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:01:38 +0000

I liked it lol

By: Mr Pink

Mr Pink — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:43:56 +0000

i disagree with a 3 out of 5 rating for this show. i watched it being a fan of the original 2 terminator films. But within the first 5 minutes, i already knew it was going to be terrible. When Sarah Conner yelled to the Terminator, “Just kill me, nothing matters without him.” (or what ever she said) I knew it was going to suck major balls.

Special effects, hot babes and explosions do not make up for terrible writing, bad acting, and irritating characters.

By: James

James — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:35:37 +0000

I hated the pilot. The story with them trying to destroy skynet from taking over the world has been played to death and I’m bored by it.

By: Tatiana

Tatiana — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:57:37 +0000

No offense to whomever wrote this, but the Terminator movies were anything but “character-driven.” They were action-driven all the way through. The plot element was simple: Bad Robot From Future comes to kill Girl In Past. That was it. The characterization was paper thin. In the first movie you knew nothing about Sarah save that she was hunted.

In the second movie you really didn’t know all that much about Sarah and young John except that they were … hunted. Oh, and they wanted to save the future.

That’s not characterization. That’s plot happening around some characters.

By: Trebek

Trebek — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:02:24 +0000

I watched the pilot for this show…And I thought it was garbage. Nothing but bad acting.

By: Jerry Butler

Jerry Butler — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:31:03 +0000

James Cameron needs to start helming the Terminator franchise again.

Kind of sad to see something as cool as Terminator going the Buffy the vampireslayer route to small budget TV.

By: Nathaniel

Nathaniel — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:57:21 +0000

spoiler

I would say Cameron is more like a “real” girl because, thanks to the shifting of the timeline, Terminators are coming from further in the future, and can mimic humans better, or something like that.